Quotes from Rachel Held Evans
We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
— Rachel Held Evans
Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.
— Rachel Held Evans
Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
— Rachel Held Evans
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
— Rachel Held Evans
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
— Rachel Held Evans
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.
— Rachel Held Evans
Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
— Rachel Held Evans
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.
— Rachel Held Evans
We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
— Rachel Held Evans
Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.
— Rachel Held Evans
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
— Rachel Held Evans
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.
— Rachel Held Evans